Multi-Vendor Advanced Unix Data Tools and Techniques

This course provides insight into the advanced topics for handling and manipulating data streams on UNIX/Linux machines. We will start with an advanced view of using the shell efficiently for data manipulation. Over two days will be devoted to exploring Regular Expressions, as well as in-depth analysis of the advanced sed and awk features. A full day is dedicated to an introduction to the Perl programming, which is such an important and portable programming environment these days.

At the end of this course, you will be able to:

* Improve the efficiency of shell scripts
* Be fully conversant with the advanced Regular Expression features
* Use advanced features of sed, such as tagging, grouping, looping , etc
* Understand the purpose and the flow of operation of awk
* Use awk’s programming features, including decision making constructs, loops, etc
* Appreciate the power of Perl in platform-independent environments
* Use Perl’s basic ‘magic’ variable types, characters, program structure and flow control constructs in simple administrative and reporting scripts
* Understand the differences in the three main tools discussed, and make an informed choice of which tool is the most relevant for the task in hand